Career
From 1898 until his death, Bourdot was a parish priest in Saint-Priest-en-Murat. He bequeathed his mycological collection to the Museum National d"Histoire Naturelle in Paris. With mycologist Amédée Galzin (1853–1925), he was co-author of a series of publications (1909–1925) involving Hymenomycetes native to France (published in the Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France).